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Neighbours

Neighbours: Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson, first aired 18 March 1985, set on Ramsay Street in fictional Erinsborough, Melbourne. Longest-running Australian TV drama; UK ratings phenomenon on BBC and Channel 5; cancelled 2022, revived by Amazon Freevee 2023, final episode due December 2025.

Neihu

Neihu (內湖區) is a district of Taipei City, Taiwan, incorporated July 1, 1968; area 31.5787 km², about 273,000 residents, home to the Neihu Technology Park and Taipei's geographic center.

Neijia (内家)

Neijia (内家, internal school) is the Chinese martial arts category for internal styles such as taijiquan, xingyiquan, and baguazhang, opposed to waijia (external school); the division originates in Huang Zongxi's 1669 epitaph for Wang Zhengnan and is widely considered a political-literary construct.

Neijiang

Neijiang (内江), the "Sweet City" (甜城), is a prefecture-level city on the Tuo River in southeast Sichuan between Chengdu and Chongqing; a former sugar center, birthplace of painter Zhang Daqian, with about 3.14 million residents (2020 census).

Neijiang Baima power station

Neijiang Baima power station (内江白马发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Neijiang, Sichuan, China, home to the world's first 600 MW supercritical circulating fluidized bed boiler.

Neil A. Holtzman

Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.

Neil Adger

W. Neil Adger, born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1964, is a professor of human geography at the University of Exeter known for work on climate change adaptation.

Neil Amin-Smith

Neil Amin-Smith (Neil Milan Amin-Smith, born 1988) is a British economist and Treasury special adviser, formerly violinist of Clean Bandit, later an Institute for Fiscal Studies researcher and member of the Chancellor's Council of Economic Advisers.

Neil Anderson (Illinois politician)

Neil Anderson is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate, first elected in 2014, who previously worked as a professional firefighter and paramedic for the City of Moline.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as commander of Apollo 11 in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon.

Neil Ashcroft

Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021) was a British-born condensed matter theorist at Cornell University, known for his 1968 prediction that metallic hydrogen would be a high-temperature superconductor and for the standard textbook Solid State Physics with David Mermin.

Neil Ashton (actor)

Neil Ashton, stage name of Neil Smith (born 1969, Kendal, Cumbria), is an English actor known as Davey MacDonagh in Sky's Brassic and Grizzle in Channel 4's It's a Sin, with credits including Cucumber, Outlander, and Bancroft.

Neil Aspinall

Neil Aspinall (1941–2008), British music executive, Beatles road manager, school friend of McCartney and Harrison, and head of Apple Corps for about 40 years; executive producer of Anthology and the '1' album.

Neil B. McKeown

Neil B. McKeown is a materials chemist who holds the Crawford Tercentenary Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and co-invented Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs).

Neil Bartlett (chemist)

Neil Bartlett (1932–2008) was a British-born inorganic chemist who in 1962 made the first noble gas compound from xenon and platinum hexafluoride, then spent most of his career at UC Berkeley.

Neil Bhatt

Neil Bhatt (नील भट्ट) is an Indian television actor and dancer from Vadodara, known as ACP Virat Chavan in Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin and Arjun Talwar in Megha Barsenge.

Neil Bonnett

Neil Bonnett (1946-1994), Alabama Gang NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Hueytown, Alabama; 18 Cup wins, 20 poles, back-to-back World 600s, first NASCAR race winner outside North America; killed in 1994 Daytona 500 practice.

Neil Breen

Neil Breen (born 1958), American independent filmmaker and former Las Vegas architect and real-estate agent, who writes, directs, funds, and stars in his own cult "so bad it's good" films from Double Down (2005) to Dire Duplicity (2026).

Neil Brockdorff

Neil Brockdorff is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018, known for showing that Xist RNA controls X chromosome inactivation.

Neil Brooks

Neil Brooks (born 1962, Crewe, England) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist anchoring the 1980 Moscow 4x100 m medley relay (49.86 s), silver and bronze at Los Angeles 1984, later a Seven Network commentator.

Neil Buchanan

Neil Buchanan is an English artist and television presenter, best known for creating and presenting the children's art show Art Attack from 1990 to 2007.

Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

Neil Burgess, born 1966, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London, known for work on the hippocampus, spatial navigation, and episodic memory.

Neil Bush

Neil Bush is an American businessman, son of President George H. W. Bush, and chair of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations.

Neil C. Sturchio

Neil C. Sturchio is an American geochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware whose research applies isotope tracers to hydrology and synchrotron X-ray methods to mineral–water interfaces.

Neil Calkin

Neil J. Calkin is a professor of mathematical sciences at Clemson University who joined in 1997 and co-authored the Calkin–Wilf tree, which lists every positive rational number exactly once.

Neil Casey

Neil Casey (born 1981, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer, a UCB improv veteran, two-time Emmy-nominated writer for SNL and Inside Amy Schumer, Rowan North in Ghostbusters (2016), and Kurt on Apple TV's Widow's Bay.

Neil Cavuto

Neil Cavuto (born 1958) is an American business journalist, first anchor hired by Fox News in 1996, host of Your World and Cavuto: Coast to Coast, who left Fox in December 2024 after 28 years.

Neil Cicierega

Neil Cicierega, also known as Lemon Demon, is a Boston-based musician, animator, and comedian behind Potter Puppet Pals, the Mouth mashup albums (2014-2020), and Spirit Phone.

Neil Danns

Neil Danns (born 1982) is an English-born Guyanese former midfielder, over 500 club games, Guyana captain at the 2019 Gold Cup, later Macclesfield, Tranmere, and Southport manager, father of Jayden Danns.

Neil Dasgupta

Neil P. Dasgupta is a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan known for battery research, including 2025 work enabling lithium-ion EV batteries to charge 500% faster at sub-zero temperatures.